Using a Keyword Plugin with Google Blog Bar

As much as I love the functionality of the Google Blog Bar in my blog, there is a limitation. Since my code to add the Blog Bar uses the post’s category for the keyword search, if the category is something like “Miscellaneous Musings/Moments“, there will be no results because the Blog Bar searches through the post’s content, and ignores the category.

I decided to find a WordPress plugin that would enable me to apply tags to my posts. Tags are better than categories when the number of posts don’t warrant having a category for the posts. Also, I don’t have to display the tags so there won’t be clutter.

I decided upon Jerome’s Keywords Plugin because it is possible to use the categories that I have already assigned to the posts. I didn’t want to have to go back and enter keywords for all my posts.

There will still be posts that don’t have blog bar results, but this new functionality allows me to have more flexibility with what results should show up.